Robotics Merit Badge

I work with my son's Boy Scout Troop. BSA has recently rolled out a Robotics Merit Badge. I've volunteered to develop and teach robotics merit badge for the troop.

I have five BOE-bot kits which we will be using. I've played around with the boe-bot enough to feel confident that our Scouts will find building the kit doable. I handed my laptop wit Gui-bot on it and an assembled boe-bot to my own son, and he had it programmed and doing stuff within 15 minutes. So - I feel like I'm on the right track.

Are there folks here who've done this already? Any experience to share on running a robotics merit badge course?

Re: Robotics Merit Badge

The BOE-Bot should be fine for a Den meeting or something the kids can finish up at home with their friends and parents. The new PropBOE board with the 12-Blocks also looks like it may be a great way for the kids to learn as well.

I'm supposed to talk about robotics in just over a week at my sons Cub Scout Pack meeting. The theme is engineering and I am going to use robotics as an example to show where the different types of engineering fit it. Mechanical Engineering for the chassis and structure of the robot. Electrical Engineering for the power wiring, Electronic Engineering for the circuit boards, Software engineering for the code to make it move, etc. I'm trying to get my robots ready now and get some demo's coded. I also have a large robot which won't be completely finished but should still show well.